# 1847 in music
## Events

* February 28 – Fire breaks out during a performance and destroys the Großherzoglichen Hoftheater in Baden. Most of the audience perishes because the theatre doors cannot be opened from the inside.
* March 3 – I Lombardi alla prima crociata is performed at Palmo's Opera House in New York City, the first presentation of a Verdi opera in the United States.
* March 14 – Verdi's Macbeth is premiėred at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence, Italy.
* September – Franz Liszt gives up performing in public.

## Publications

* Vladimir Stasov publishes a monograph on Mikhail Glinka's use of folk motifs in his music.

## Popular music

* "Cantique de Noël" ("O Holy Night") w. (Fr) Placide Cappeau (Eng) John Sullivan Dwight m. Adolphe Adam
* "Dinah Dear" by Philip Klitz
* "Miss Ginger" by Philip Klitz
* "Roll On Silver Moon" by Joseph W. Turner

## Classical music

* Franz Berwald – A Rustic Wedding
* Frederic Chopin
** Waltz Opus 64 No.1 (Minute)
** Waltz Op. 64. No. 2
** Cello Sonata
* August Freyer – Concert Variations, Op.2
* Franz Liszt
** Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
** Glanes de Woronince
** Most of the Harmonies poétiques et religieuses
* Felix Mendelssohn – String Quartet No. 6
* Jacques Offenbach – Concerto Militaire for cello and orchestra
* Robert Schumann
** Symphony No. 2
** Piano Trio No. 1
* Henryk Wieniawski – Grand Caprice Fantastique Op. 1

## Opera

* Francisco Asenjo Barbieri – Il Buontempone
* Giovanni Bottesini – Cristoforo Colombo
* Friedrich von Flotow – Martha
* Ivar Hallstrom – Hvita frun på Drottningholm (libretto by Frans Hedberg)
* Karel Miry – Brigitta (opera in 3 acts, libretto by Hippoliet van Peene, premiered on June 27 in Ghent)
* Giuseppe Verdi – Macbeth
* William Vincent Wallace – Matilda of Hungary

## Births

* January 1 – Rudolf Tillmetz, flute virtuoso, music teacher and composer (d. 1915)
* February 15 – Robert Fuchs, composer and music teacher (d. 1927)
* March 2 – Richard Temple, singer, actor and theatre director (d. 1912)
* March 9 – Axel Grandjean, conductor and composer (d. 1932)
* June 28 – Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson, composer (d. 1927)
* July 12 – Karl Heinrich Barth, pianist and music teacher (d. 1922)
* July 21 – Víctor Mirecki Larramat, cellist and music teacher (d. 1921)
* October 21 – Giuseppe Giacosa, librettist for some of Puccini's operas (d. 1906)
* November 1 – Emma Albani, soprano (d. 1930)
* November 30 – August Klughardt, conductor and composer (d. 1902)
* December 1 – Agathe Backer Grøndahl, pianist and composer (d. 1907)
* December 9 – George Grossmith, comic writer and performer (d. 1912)
* December 18 – Augusta Holmès, composer (d. 1903)
* December 28 – James Frederick Swift, organist and composer (d. 1931)
* date unknown – Emma Fursch-Madi, operatic soprano (d. 1894)

## Deaths

* January 6 – Tyagaraja, Carnatic music composer (born 1767)
* April 23 – Erik Gustaf Geijer, writer and composer (born 1783)
* May 14 – Fanny Mendelssohn, pianist and composer (born 1805; stroke)
* June 11 – Heinrich Bärmann, clarinet virtuoso (born 1784)
* June 18 – Lisette Stenberg, actress and musician (born 1770)
* July 19 – Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer (born 1772)
* September 4 – František Vladislav Hek, writer and composer (born 1769)
* September 25 – Emma Albertazzi, English contralto (born 1814)
* November 4 – Felix Mendelssohn, pianist, conductor and composer (born 1809)
* November 20 – Henry Francis Lyte, hymnist (born 1793)
* date unknown – Francesco Molino, guitarist and composer (b. 1775)